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Re:I was asked to crack a program in a job interview by pkaye on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @04:53PM (#8332300)
Some examples of coding questions I've asked in the past: reverse a string in place. Ones count of an integer. I'm testing if they understand pointers and bit manipulations for example. These should be answerable in 5 minutes max in 5 lines of C code. The incorrect answers candidates generate surprise me.
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Re:I was asked to crack a program in a job interview by dllthomas on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @04:56PM (#8332317)
Yeah, certainly stuff one should be able to manage if they're going to be working on firmware. Could you link to a posting you've got up somewhere?
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